Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan and Jack Black are back for the second sequel that is absolutely hilarious.
Directed by Jake Kasdan
After the first adventure Spencer (Alex Wolff), Fridge (Ser’Darius Blain), Bethany (Madison Iseman) and Martha (Morgan Turner) want to reunite on Christmas. Spencer’s grandfather comes to visit. Spencer, who has mixed feelings of life, wants to feel as confident as Dr. Bravestone (Dwayne Johnson). The remaining three hear the music of the Jumanji game. The next thing they know is that Fridge, Martha, Grandpa Eddie (Danny DeVito) and Milo (Danny Glover) find themselves in the characters of the game. They get picked up by Nigel (Rhys Darby) and get the Quest : defeat Jurgen The Brutal (Rory McCann), show the Falcon Jewel to the sun and, to finish the game, call out Jumanji’s name. They get past the first level and find Spencer as the character Ming (Awkwafina) trying to steal the key to the chest from Jurgen. He doesn’t get it and they have to follow Jurgen up to his fortress. On the way they get past yet another level of the game and reunite with Bethany and Alex (Nick Jonas). They find some wacky looking water that change the character they are in so, when they reach the fortress, they are all back in their original character. When things get spicy, Martha pulls the old Dance Fighting trick out. They defeat Jurgen and get to go back home in the real world, but one of them stays back.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson delivers a great performance first as Grandpa Eddie and then later as Spencer. He really gets the character of Grandpa Eddie in his very muscled body, but also gets Spencer’s character into Dr. Bravestone.
In this sequel, Martha turns into Ruby Roundhouse who is brilliantly played by Karen Gillian. She is a badass but gets a touching heart to heart with The Rock as Spencer.
Kevin Hart is as always very funny, but this time he plays an elderly man for half the movie and puts Milo’s wiseness into the character.
Jake Black’s performance as Fridge is amazing. It really shows that he has an incredible range for performing. He plays Fringe, Martha and Bethany in one movie and it’s exceptional.
Danny DeVito’s performance is brief but iconic. He brings life into Grandpa Eddie, who is old but hasn’t lost the joy of life.
Danny Glover is also brief but just as iconic. He is very relaxed and brings a calming character into this action filled movie.
I personally think that this movie is great for a movie-night with friends and family. It’s even better than the first one because it has a touch more humour and you laugh more but it also has more heart to hearts with different characters witch makes it deeper in the story.
